Trial Offers New Choice for Blood-Pressure Patients

By

Christopher Weaver

Jun 5, 2012 2:02 pm ET

A new medical device with the promise to relieve an otherwise untreatable form of high-blood pressure has made its first forays into the U.S. in recent weeks, as major medical centers begin testing the procedure, WSJ reported.

Patients have high hopes for the clinical trial, coupled in some cases with frustration: Because the device is the first with that might ease stubborn hypertension that doesn’t respond to drugs, those who don’t make the cut have few other options….

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